Re: new hardware, more problems

2012-01-24 Thread Frederic Muller
On 01/25/2012 03:56 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote: One thing that drove me nuts with my thinkpad was its trusted computing module. The TCM driver polls (sometimes for minutes) which looks like a hang until you go into the BIOS and configure it to hide the part completely. Turning it off made it much mo

Re: new hardware, more problems

2012-01-24 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 01/24/2012 05:36 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: On 01/24/2012 06:16 PM, Greg wrote: On 24/01/2012 5:11 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: Hi! Some may remember I was struggling with my old (but faithful) T60 and rawhide because of poor performance and increased heat. I have therefore upgraded my hardwa

Re: OT: Re: new hardware, more problems

2012-01-24 Thread Frank Murphy
On 24/01/12 11:03, Frederic Muller wrote: I am also running updates-testing, but my question was really about what would be more effective/beneficial for the project: F16 or rawhide bug filling? It seems it doesn't matter? Testing is always appreciated, but in many cases it depends on what y

Re: OT: Re: new hardware, more problems

2012-01-24 Thread Frederic Muller
On 01/24/2012 06:46 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: In the case of F16 post to: users list it could be a simple icon\theme missing. For tesing\Rawhide post to: test list In either case say what you have done\tried, relevant logs. Are you in a position to run a seriel console. Yes there is a com port

OT: Re: new hardware, more problems

2012-01-24 Thread Frank Murphy
On 24/01/12 06:11, Frederic Muller wrote: Hi! Some may remember I was struggling with my old (but faithful) T60 and rawhide because of poor performance and increased heat. Besides, hw upgrades. Clean dust, more powerful fan\heatsink, thermal paste Raise laptop slightly on edges to clear desk,

Re: new hardware, more problems

2012-01-24 Thread Frederic Muller
On 01/24/2012 06:16 PM, Greg wrote: On 24/01/2012 5:11 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: Hi! Some may remember I was struggling with my old (but faithful) T60 and rawhide because of poor performance and increased heat. I have therefore upgraded my hardware (more CPUs, more RAM) and have hit a lot of n

Re: new hardware, more problems

2012-01-24 Thread Greg
On 24/01/2012 5:11 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: Hi! Some may remember I was struggling with my old (but faithful) T60 and rawhide because of poor performance and increased heat. I have therefore upgraded my hardware (more CPUs, more RAM) and have hit a lot of new annoying to critical bugs with